Not even a morning rainstorm could keep a crowd out of Purdue’s soybean fields on Thursday, July 17 at the 2025 Soybean Showcase. Among the young pods and pink blossoms, farmers, College of ...

This week’s Data Snapshot features CFDAS data on weekly food expenditure in the United States. Using data from our Consumer Food Insights survey, the figure plots a nationally representative average ...

New questions this month explore consumer experiences with food prices and home food production. How do consumers describe current grocery prices? How are they adapting? Are they producing their own ...

The public’s familiarity with the term “food insecurity” and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is mixed, with approximately 40% of Americans reporting they are only “slightly ...

In this edition, we explore what consumers think about healthy diets and examine responses by self-rated diet quality. Additional questions explore consumer perceptions of and preferences for healthy ...

In this edition, we explore the last three years of CFI data disaggregated by U.S. Census region: (1) Northeast, (2) Midwest, (3) South and (4) West. Additional questions this month measure consumer ...

Purdue University's College of Agriculture leads globally in the science and business of agriculture, food, life, and natural resources, positively changing the world through our unwavering commitment ...

How easy or difficult is it for consumers to know how healthy a food is when looking at the packaging? Diet quality plays a role. Consumers with excellent diets find it significantly easier to ...

The new Consumer Food Insights from Purdue University explores consumer sentiments towards exotic and cultivated meats.

The Department of Agricultural Economics published the 2022 Annual Outlook Issue of the Purdue Agricultural Economics Report earlier this month, including articles by my colleagues with specialized ...

A spreadsheet to create pro-forma income and sources and uses of funds statements, and to compute repayment capacity and liquidity measures.

Key insights include: Those who spend the least on food score lowest on nutrition, security and economic sustainability. Around two-thirds of consumers have used a food ordering app; almost half of ...